The allure and thrill of the unknown ending in an over-scripted world and the visceral encounter with the unaltered has left us drunk and horny on communal media peep shows.
Damages did much to support my hindsight appreciation of TV drama in recent years. Powered by a narrative dynamic that often played with chronological exposition, it was an uncommonly complex and challenging show.
Kyra Sedgwick remembers how, in 2005, she almost did not take the role of Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's hit crime series "The Closer." Now, seven year...
It feels like it all went by very fast. One moment, Michael Robin, Greer Shephard and I were sitting at a long conference table at TNT in Burbank, "pitching" an idea to Michael Wright and Lillah McCarthy for a new series; the next, I am writing a few stray thoughts about its finale.
Throughout America’s storied history of crime, a handful of particularly unsettling homicides have not only made, but transcended headlines, shaking...
I must begin with a disclaimer. Despite some superficial similarities, the next-to-last episode of The Closer has absolutely nothing to do with the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
The end draws every closer for Detective Brenda Leigh Johnson and "The Closer" (Mon., 9 p.m. ET on TNT) with Kyra Sedgwick turning in another powerful...
Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has been an icon and a powerful presence in the lives of so many fans of The Closer. It's hard to believe that the moment has come for fans to give her, and the show, one hell of a send-off.
Despite the fact that he hindered the investigation this week, Brenda found herself in need of help from Dr. Parr on "The Closer" (Mon., 9 p.m. ET on ...
Love might be the synthesis of all our greatest human qualities: fidelity, devotion, loyalty, hope, faith, charity, but, above all, trust. Without trust, what's left?
"YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?"
There was another example of brilliant hair work on this episode, but I probably shouldn't talk so much about myself...
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The clock is ticking on "The Closer" (Mon., 9 p.m. ET on TNT), with spin-off "Major Crimes" waiting in the wings to try and carry the torch. But Detec...
Kyra Sedgwick's “The Closer" is in the midst of its seventh and final season. Sedgwick appeared on "CBS This Morning" to reflect on the end of her j...
All good things must come to an end, even "The Closer." Series star Kyra Sedgwick, who has played Brenda Leigh Johnson for seven seasons, is saying go...
At its core, The Closer has always been about the battle between idealism and pragmatism represented in our daily lives by the tug between career and family, between our expectations and our realities.
The Civil War may be history, but there are more than a few southern belles around to remind us the South is alive and well on television today, parti...
Detectives are known as an eccentric lot. Neurotic and paranoid, hard-nosed and hard-boiled—their line of work often results in memorable lines as t...